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On DeepSeek, and stuff
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fridiIn 2023, Meta released its AI code as open source. For those not familiar with it, "open source" means that the code is publicly available. DeepSeek has also released its code as open source.
Another factor is that the US bans exports of certain high-powered and AI-specific chips. This forced DeepSeek's developers to optimize the code to run on slower / standard hardware.
Meta sees this as a win. Why? Because releasing their code as open source allowed an innovator to optimize it in ways that they didn't. Meta's chief AI scientist (Yann LeCun), also says that thinking about this as "China beating the US" are looking at it the wrong way. It's about open source working better than closed source.
Now. Here's a question. In short:
1. Deepseek gets released to GitHub.
2. A developer in Venezuela forks it to add Taiwan responses back in.
3. Another developer in Iceland forks that and adds some data for a rare chemical process that they need to gather responses for to do their masters degree.
4. Another developer in Zimbabwe forks that and so on.
5. Any of these forks are trivial to download and run on a laptop with an rtx4060 and that happens all over the globe.
QuestioN: Is it still DeepSeek?
Another factor is that the US bans exports of certain high-powered and AI-specific chips. This forced DeepSeek's developers to optimize the code to run on slower / standard hardware.
Meta sees this as a win. Why? Because releasing their code as open source allowed an innovator to optimize it in ways that they didn't. Meta's chief AI scientist (Yann LeCun), also says that thinking about this as "China beating the US" are looking at it the wrong way. It's about open source working better than closed source.
Now. Here's a question. In short:
1. Deepseek gets released to GitHub.
2. A developer in Venezuela forks it to add Taiwan responses back in.
3. Another developer in Iceland forks that and adds some data for a rare chemical process that they need to gather responses for to do their masters degree.
4. Another developer in Zimbabwe forks that and so on.
5. Any of these forks are trivial to download and run on a laptop with an rtx4060 and that happens all over the globe.
QuestioN: Is it still DeepSeek?
